In this paper, we study the integrability of contact Hamiltonian systems, both time-dependent and independent. order to do so, construct a Hamilton–Jacobi theory for these systems following two approaches, obtaining different equations. Compared conservative depend one additional parameter. The fact equations reflects whether are looking solutions depending on parameter or not. illustrate devel...

in this paper, an integration of improve particle swarm optimization (ipso) incombination with successive quadratic programming (sqp) so called ipso-sqpalgorithm is proposed to solve time optimal bang-bang control problems. theprocedure is found not sensitive to the initial guess of the solution. due to randomselection in the first stage of the search process, the chance of converging to theglo...

Following Turing (1950), most AI researchers accept a purely behavioral criterion for intelligence. That is, an artificial device that is able to do things that are assumed to require intelligence when done by a human merits the description intelligent even though it is merely a mechanism. Thus, a computer program capable of playing excellent chess would be considered intelligent, even though i...

Machines incorporating embedded systems display a trend towards increasing autonomy. In this position paper, we outline an approach for introducing autonomy in embedded system architectures. The approach involves the creation of an artificial consciousness within the machine. We propose that the artificial consciousness may be represented in the form of domain specific reference architectures. ...

Autonomous machines have fascinated people for millennia. The Ancient Greeks told of Talos, the Man of Bronze, whose supposedly mythical existence has been given unexpected credence by the recent discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism. Could the Greeks really have created a giant mechanical man to protect Europa in Crete against pirates and invaders? Long before that, the Ancient Egyptians crea...

This paper describes a technique called Znput Reconstruction Reliability Estimation (IRRE) for detcrmining the response reliability of a restricted class of multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). The technique uses a network’s ability to accurately encode the input pattern in its internal representation as a measure of its reliability. The more accurately a network is able to reconstruct the input pat...

DESCRIPTION. Robotics and Autonomous Systems will carry articles describing fundamental developments in the field of robotics, with special emphasis on autonomous systems. An important goal of this journal is to extend the state of the art in both symbolic and sensory based robot control and learning in the context of autonomous systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems will carry articles on th...

Many proposed autonomous systems are safety critical and will have to be certified before they can be operated. This paper reviews the challenges that autonomous systems pose for safety and the current state of relevant safety standards, concluding that autonomous system certification is possible under current regimes, but difficult given current safety analysis techniques. Some promising techn...

We are interested in very general systems which are programmed once and which from then on learn autonomously all sorts of things simply by observing a sequence of input data. In this preliminary note we give examples of techniques which apparently permit to deal with two basic aspects related to such systems: basic drive and complexity of learning steps. A system which learns autonomously must...